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Once upon a time, there was only Internet Explorer, and it was good (or at least, it seemed good), it ruled the world, it defined "standards" and made people happy.

But that was a long time ago. Internet Explorer is a totally flawed piece of software that lacks a good security infraestructure and was designed with no security in mind, only a nice user interface and a lot of incompatible, non-standard features. Internet Explorer takes the control of the computer away from the user. Internet Explorer can silently download ActiveX binaries from any source (trusted or untrusted) and blindly run them with full user privileges available. This is a serious security flaw and it's the cause of all of the malware that plagues the Internet. It's sad to say, but those users running Windows and Internet Explorer are a potential danger to the rest of us: first, they get infected, then they start trying to infect all others by sending spam messages, e-mail viruses, knocking at known ports of insecure and vulnerable software and so on. Using IE is a security risk, a risk for all of us.

Internet Explorer does support none of modern features found in other browsers, like integrated search (I mean integrated and configurable search, not blindly and stupidly turning to MSN search), tabbed browsing, detachable tabs and tab groups, mouse gestures, good cookie control policies, standard bookmark formats, interoperability with other browsers and software, the ability to change profiles on the fly, etc, etc.

Internet Explorer hasn't added ANY single feature since 5.0 was released. 6.0 was mainly a bug fix with some useless UI niceties, but nothing serious, appart from deviating from standards and trying to control the browser market by creating an incompatible and biased browser.

This leads me to recommend anyone to immediately switch from that flawed browser called Internet Explorer to something more usable, secure and open for public review, like an open-source browser or even a commercial one, like Opera. I can recommend on Firefox, Mozilla and Opera (since Konqueror doesn't run on Windows) as they are safe, fast, secure, standard and very user friendly. I have used them a lot and love them.

Do yourself a favor, switch your browser, and do it now. It will be good for you and it will be good for me. I did, and now I can sleep knowing that no troyan, work or virus will wreck into my computer due to a stupid software like IE who tried to take control off me. No, no, no.

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